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τρίβολος

tríbolos · G5146 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Thing

Meanings

  1. thorn plant, thistle, brier

    Any kind of plant with sharp projections on its stem and/or branches; regarded as useless; symbol of hardship

    Examples

    Matthew 7:16 “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?

    Hebrews 6:8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
ἄκανθα ákantha · G173 · thorn plant, thistle, brier
ἄκανθα is the general term for a thorn or thorny plant, while τρίβολος denotes a specific type of thorny plant, a thistle or caltrop. τρίβολος names a specific referent within the broader category ἄκανθα denotes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Thorn plant, thistle, brier3.17
Matthew 7:16 — “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?”
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τρεῖς treîs · G5140 · three · 67×τρίτος trítos · G5154 · third, third part · 56×τρίς trís · G5151 · thrice, three times · 12×τριάκοντα triákonta · G5144 · thirty · 11×τριακόσιοι triakósioi · G5145 · three hundred · 2×τρίβολοςtríbolos · G5146τριετία trietía · G5148 · a three-year period, for three years · 1×τρίμηνον trímēnon · G5150 · for three months · 1×τρίστεγον trístegon · G5152 · second story (British usage), third story (American usage) · 1×τρισχίλιοι trischílioi · G5153 · three thousand · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τριβολου, ὁ (τρεῖς and βάλλω ((cf. βέλος), three-pointed)), a thistle, a prickly wild…
τριβολου, ὁ (τρεῖς and βάλλω ((cf. βέλος), three-pointed)), a thistle, a prickly wild plant, hurtful to other plants: Mt 7:16; Heb 6:8. (Aristophanes, others; the Sept. for דַּרְדַּר, Gen 3:18; Hos 10:8; for צְנִינִים thorns, Prov 22:5.) (Cf. B. D. under the word, Thorns and Thistles, 4; Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 302.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Plants That Are Not Trees2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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